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Morphology and Morphemes
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Morphology and Morphemes
Morphology and Morphemes
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What is the study of morphology in linguistics?
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The study of the internal structure of words and the rules by which words are formed.
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What is another traditional term for morphology?
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Accidence.
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What does inflectional morphology focus on?
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The inflection of words, or changes in word forms for grammatical roles.
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Why is inflectional morphology relatively unimportant in English grammar?
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Because English words have relatively few inflections.
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What is derivational morphology?
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The formation of new words from morphemes.
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Where is derivational morphology often included?
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In lexicology, the study of the lexicon or vocabulary.
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What is a morpheme?
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The smallest language unit associated with meaning.
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How is a morpheme theoretically defined?
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The smallest meaningful and grammatical unit to which a word can be decomposed.
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What is an example of a word with one morpheme?
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Boy or desire.
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What is an example of a word with two morphemes?
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Boyish or desirable.
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What is an example of a word with three morphemes?
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Boyishness or desirability.
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What is an example of a word with four morphemes?
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Gentlemanliness.
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What is an example of a word with more than four morphemes?
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Ungentlemanliness.
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What are monomorphemic words?
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Words consisting of a single morpheme, also called simple words.
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What are polymorphemic words?
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Words consisting of multiple morphemes, also called complex words.
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How does a morpheme differ from a syllable?
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A morpheme can be realized by different numbers of syllables.
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What is an example of a one-syllable morpheme?
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Child, win, sit, lie, fault, -ish, or un-.
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What is an example of a two-syllable morpheme?
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Office, money, camel, lady, water, -ity, or inter-.
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What is an example of a three-syllable morpheme?
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Crocodile.
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What is an example of a morpheme with four or more syllables?
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Apothecary or onomatopoeia.
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What are free morphemes?
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Morphemes that can occur independently.
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What are examples of free lexical morphemes?
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Child, teach, or cloud.
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What are examples of free grammatical morphemes?
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And, of, or the.
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What are bound morphemes?
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Morphemes that only occur in combination with other morphemes.
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What are bound lexical or derivational morphemes?
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Bound morphemes that create new words when attached; they have word-formation function.
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Give an example of a derivational morpheme changing a verb to an adjective.
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Play to playful.
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Give an example of a derivational morpheme adding a noun suffix.
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Cloud to cloudy.
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Give an example of a derivational morpheme creating a verb from an adjective.
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Rich to enrich.
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What are bound grammatical or inflectional morphemes?
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Bound morphemes that express general grammatical meaning or relations; they have inflectional function.
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Give an example of an inflectional morpheme for plural nouns.
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Boys (boy + s).